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Governing Members
Governing members participate in the governing committees of Blade.org.
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APC
In February 2007, APC and MGE UPS Systems combined to form a $3 billion (€2.4 billion) Critical Power & Cooling Services business unit of Schneider Electric. Together, APC and MGE offer the industry's most comprehensive product and solution range for critical IT and process applications in industrial, enterprise, small and medium business and home environments. APC and MGE solutions include uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), precision cooling units, racks, and design and management software, including APC's InfraStruXure® architecture, the industry's most comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution. Backed by the industry's broadest service organization and an industry leading R&D investment, the combined company's 12,000 employees help customers confront today's unprecedented power, cooling and management challenges. Schneider Electric, with 112,000 employees and operations in 190 countries, had 2006 annual sales of $18 billion (€13.7 billion). For more information on APC and MGE, please visit www.apc.com. |
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BLADE Network Technologies
BLADE Network Technologies is the leading supplier of Gigabit and 10G Ethernet network infrastructure solutions that reside in blade servers and "scale-out" server and storage racks. BLADE's new "virtual, cooler and easier" RackSwitch family demonstrates the promise of "Rackonomics" - a revolutionary approach for scaling out data center networks to drive down total cost of ownership. For the IBM BladeCenter, BLADE Network Technologies supports 8 Ethernet switches under the BNT brand (formerly Nortel brand). . BLADE has continued to drive innovation in the rapidly growing blade server market with multiple industry firsts: Layer 2-7 switch, 10G uplink, full 10G fabric switch, FCoE, network virtualization and stacking. The company's customers include 300 of the Fortune 500 across 26 industry segments, and an installed base of over 250,000 network switches representing more than 1,200,000 servers and nearly 6 million switch ports. For more information, visit www.bladenetwork.net. |
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Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) provides the industry's leading platforms, solutions, and services for intelligently connecting, managing, and optimizing IT resources in shared storage environments. The company has pioneered the Storage Area Network (SAN) market with its comprehensive family of SAN infrastructure solutions. In addition, Brocade leads the industry with innovative File Area Network (FAN) solutions that provide the foundation for efficient file management. To ensure the most complete solution, Brocade also delivers a wide range of unique services offerings. As a result, Brocade helps organizations of all sizes increase efficiency, reduce costs, and maximize the value of their data assets. (www.brocade.com) |
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Emulex Corporation
Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is the leader in converged networking solutions for the data center. Our Connectivity Continuum™ architecture provides intelligent networking services that transition today's infrastructure into tomorrow's unified network ecosystem. Emulex provides a single framework that intelligently connects every server, network and storage device within the data center. Through integrated partner solutions, Emulex provides its customers with industry leading business value, operational flexibility and strategic advantage. Emulex's portfolio of controller chips, adapters, blades and connectivity solutions are proven, tested and trusted by the world's largest and most demanding IT environments and are offered by the industry's leading enterprise OEMs. www.emulex.com |
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IBM
IBM is aligned around a single, focused business model: innovation. IBM takes its breadth and depth of insight on issues, processes and operations across a variety of industries, and invents and applies technology to help solve its clients' most intractable business and competitive problems. Although we remain committed, as ever, to lead the development of state-of-the-art technologies, and the products and service offerings built around them, we measure ourselves today by how well we help clients solve their biggest and most pressing problems. www.ibm.com
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Intel Corporation
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.
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QLogic Corporation
QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions including Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs, iSCSI routers and storage services platforms for enabling advanced storage management applications. The company is also a leading supplier of server networking products including InfiniBand host channel adapters that accelerate cluster performance. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index. For more information go to www.qlogic.com. |
Sponsoring Members
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Broadcom Corporation
Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. We provide the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art, system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything®.
Broadcom is one of the world's largest fabless semiconductor companies, with 2006 revenue of $3.67 billion, and holds over 2,200 U.S. and 900 foreign patents, more than 6,600 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video and data. Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at +1.949.926.5900 or at www.broadcom.com. |
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Bull
As one of the leading European IT companies, Bull delivers open, flexible and secure information systems. The group helps public and private sector customers transform their information systems, applying its know-how and expertise in three main areas:
- Capitalizing on its extensive mainframe experience, Bull designs and produces robust, innovative and open servers, based on industry-standard technologies;
- Building on its alliances with leading ISVs and long standing involvement with Open Source, Bull develops and implements flexible and interoperable application infrastructures which give business processes the freedom to evolve;
- Bringing together recognized expertise in end-to-end IT security, Bull secures data and exchanges that are so critical in preserving customers' business integrity.
Bull has a particularly strong presence in the public, healthcare, finance, telecommunications, manufacturing and defense sectors. Its distribution network and business partners cover more than 60 countries worldwide. For more information visit: http://www.bull.com |
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NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business
breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to principles of simplicity,
innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data
management providers today.
Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of
solutions for business applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup, and more. Our
solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so
companies can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever
before. Customers rely on our industry-leading solutions to lower the cost of protecting their data,
businesses, and reputations.
We bring together the industry’s best partners and technology to deliver services that help
customers maximize what they are getting from their infrastructure. Our collaborative approach,
working as one team with one goal, means that customers get a solution that is just right for
them—on time and on budget. To support global businesses, we provide highly-responsive
support in local languages. From London to Austin, from Bangalore to Tokyo, we’ll work with
customers to solve their problems and help them reach their goals.
Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at
www.netapp.com. |
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ServerEngines LLC
ServerEngines LLC is a visionary supplier of silicon building blocks optimized for next generation enterprise computing. ServerEngines was formed in early 2004 and is based in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information, visit www.serverengines.com. |
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VirtenSys, Ltd.
VirtenSys, Ltd. is a leading supplier of PCIe IO virtualization silicon solutions. VirtenSys was incorporated in December 2005 and is led by a team of semiconductor and system veterans. VirtenSys is privately held with initial funding from Scottish Equity Partners, Celtic House Venture Partners and GIMV. Its headquarters and engineering operations are in Manchester, UK with sales and marketing offices in Silicon Valley. For further information, visit the VirtenSys web site at www.virtensys.com.
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General Members
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AFCO Systems
AFCO Systems (www.afcosystems.com) is a leader in Green Datacenter Resource solutions that bridge IT and Facilities to enable a new level of balance, visibiity and control over the critical datacenter resources: power, cooling and space. |
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Anders & Rodewyk
Anders & Rodewyk supports medium-sized enterprises and public institutions with holistic IT-solutions from concept to implementation. Our team members are certified in multiple IT disciplines with extensive expertise in consulting in a vendor neutral manner. http://www.ar-hannover.de |
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Aprius Inc.
Aprius is a privately held, early stage, venture funded company in Silicon Valley developing high bandwidth server interconnect systems, utilizing PCI Express over optics, that bring new levels of scaling, resource sharing and low-latency performance to the data center.
Aprius' products focus on providing various shared services to data center clusters over a cost-effective, high-bandwidth, low latency interconnect. Introducing a new category of systems known as 'Cluster Services Nodes' Aprius products will provide various services (compute, network IO, and storage resources) to nodes within a cluster over PCI-Express enabling applications such as: Server I/O Expansion, Computational Acceleration, I/O Virtualization and Pooling, and High performance shared storage.www.aprius.com |
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Celestica
Celestica is a world leader in the delivery of electronics manufacturing services (EMS). Celestica operates a global manufacturing network with operations in Asia, Europe and the Americas, providing a broad range of integrated services and solutions to leading OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). For further information on Celestica, visit its website at www.celestica.com.
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Chelsio Communications
Chelsio Communications is the leading provider of 10 Gigabit Ethernet standards-compliant Unified Wire solutions for data centers. Chelsio's adapters enable the convergence of storage, clustering and networking applications onto a single high-performance unified Ethernet fabric. Chelsio's technology is being used in a wide range of applications, including Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Network (SAN), High Performance Computing, Video Editing, and Enterprise Servers. For more information, visit the company at www.chelsio.com. |
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Compellent Technologies
Compellent Technologies (NYSE: CML) provides Fluid Data storage solutions that automate the movement and management of data at a granular level, enabling organizations to constantly adapt to change, slash costs and secure information against downtime and disaster. This patented, built-in storage intelligence delivers significant efficiency, scalability and flexibility. With an all-channel sales network in 35 countries, Compellent is one of the fastest growing enterprise storage companies in the world, with more than 3,000 systems installed in 35 countries in every type of industry. The company pioneered and patented automated tiered storage and has the only solution that dynamically migrates data at the block level to the optimal storage tier based on frequency of access. Because of such innovations, Compellent has won the InfoWorld “Technology of the Year” award three consecutive times to date (each year the program has taken place), and an independent survey of storage professionals conducted by InfoPro found that 100% of Compellent customers would purchase Compellent again. Compellent delivers a fully virtualized foundation for your entire IT stack, with key technology partnerships in place for your entire infrastructure, and delivers the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry – slashing the time and cost of storage up to 80%. For more information and news, visit www.compellent.com and www.compellent.com/news. |
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Myricom Inc
Founded in 1994, Myricom, Inc., is a leading global supplier of high-performance networking solutions: network-interface cards (NICs), switches, and associated software. Myricom's Myri-10G products are standards-based 10-Gigabit Ethernet, fully interoperable with the 10Gb Ethernet products of other companies. Myri-10G NICs deliver wire-speed performance for conventional TCP/IP applications, and also have optional software distributions with firmware for low-latency, video, and other specialized applications. Myri-10G switches scale economically to thousands of ports.
Myricom products are used in many thousands of customer sites in more than 50 countries, including in many BladeCenter clusters. For example, the famous MareNostrum blade cluster at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center uses Myrinet-2000 adapters and switches to connect 2,560 blades. Myricom has been shipping Myri-10G HSECs for the BladeCenter-H since 2006. These HSECs are bundled with software support for all major operating systems, including Linux, Windows, Solaris, and VMware ESX. For more information, please visit www.myri.com. |
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NextIO, Inc.
NextIO is the leader in IO Gateway segment of the Virtualization market. Our ExpressConnect product suite and nControl software leverage the PCI Express standard for end-to-end connectivity. Using PCI Express as a transport medium is ideally suited for data center and dense computing environments since there are no new software or custom drivers required. We alone enable seamless I/O Virtualization to all standard industry endpoints (or devices) with industry standard drivers, encompassing both expansion and sharing opportunities. www.nextio.com |
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Tracewell Systems
Tracewell Systems provides Advanced Form Factor Engineering ™ services to organizations that need to deploy high-performance computing hardware in harsh environmental conditions, including Department of Defense agencies and companies in aerospace, healthcare, telecom and other industries.
Since 1973, Tracewell Systems has provided innovative design, engineering and manufacturing services to some of the nation’s largest military, aerospace and commercial organizations. The company applies industry expertise and patented technologies to create custom ruggedized systems from commercially available hardware. Tracewell Systems solutions help clients fulfill their mission IT requirements with equipment that meets the most demanding technical and environmental requirements. For more information, visit www.tracewell.com.
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Voltaire Inc.
Voltaire is the worldwide leader in grid backbone solutions for networked computing in the next generation data center. Voltaire's integrated family of switching hardware and network virtualization software delivers the high-performance, intelligent backbone for grid computing architectures. Leveraging the InfiniBand standard, Voltaire solutions offer improved performance, utilization and scalability across compute clusters, storage and IP networks. Voltaire solutions are available from major systems vendors and integrators. More information about Voltaire is available at www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247. |
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